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Though he has been photographing lightning for over 20 years, Travis Roe was still taken by surprise when his brilliant images of lightning striking the Grand Canyon took the Internet by storm earlier this year.

Taken over the south rim of the Grand Canyon in 2012, the photos were shared on social media by the U.S. Department of Interior after Roe entered them into their "Share the Experience" photography competition. They quickly went viral.

But this spectacular scene is just one of many that Roe, a professional videographer and video editor, has taken over the years. He has been shooting electrical storms since he was a teen and has amassed a beautiful collection of images on both film and digital formats. The Grand Canyon shot was the first he had ever taken with a professional digital camera.

Read on to see more of the split-second images Roe has captured of some of nature's most powerful moments.

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Grand Canyon Watchtower, 2012

Shot with a digital camera

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The Awakening Sculpture, Hains Point, Washington D.C., 2004 (The sculpture has since been moved to The National Harbor in Maryland)

Shot on 35mm film

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Grand Canyon, 2007

Shot on medium format film

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The Awakening Sculpture, Hains Point, Washington D.C., 2004 (The sculpture has since been moved to The National Harbor in Maryland)